As title/description says I'm having a problem installing unreal tournament 2004. It's not always at the same point but it happens at some point every time. I have also seen it crash (previously but not recently) when installing rpms, so I think it's somehow an issue with the drive and linux/mandrake. I am really frustrated about this situation because the whole setup works just great in windows (not a single coaster out of this drive yet).

Please provide any help possible (oh.. and I've tried disabling/enabling dma and that didn't help....)

This problem is on Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official. Also the stalling has started to occur in other applications but not until after this happened so perhaps some type of corruption.